ALLIANCE FO§ DEMOCRACY

Elmau

Some 60 million years ago, there was an ocean where the upper Bavarian Wetterstein mountains are now. There is usually only lightning at 1000 metres above sea level, but on the weekend of 6/7 June 2015, the Schloss Elmau hotel was the pivot point for international politics. On the agenda were issues such as the as Ukraine crisis, global economic policy, ISIS terror, environmental protection. We do not know what was discussed privately. Either there were no results or they were not disclosed.
In an interview with the German television broadcaster ZDF, the chancellor was monosyllabic, seemed unsure of herself, stressed out, and said: the NSA scandal is a non-issue. A more important issue for the chancellor was " to make important milestones”. She didn’t say what those milestones might be.
As with the 2007 summit in Heiligendamm on the climate, no significant changes are on the agenda - the financial transaction tax still doesn't exist, regulation of the banks is not happening. There are no results from this meeting either. There must be, however, because when there is a meeting of the representatives of the seven remaining industrial nations, who excluded Russia after the attack on the Crimea, to discuss God knows what about the people, who are paying for this wingding, and have a right to know what is being discussed and what action will be taken. If not, what are these meetings for? in an article for German Radio, Rolf von Hohenhau, president of the Taxpayers Union in Bavaria estimated that the 22-hour meeting cost €360 million.
What they must have been discussing in Elmau was how to maintain Europe and the weakening euro, but also the unstable U.S. dollar, which is slowly strengthening, and the weak Yen. With the major currencies in such a miserable state, a global economic crisis can no longer be ruled out.
Chancellor Angela Merkel, who represents Germany, along with French President François Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi – all three countries are bankrupt – will continue to fight to save the euro. The U.S. (represented by Barack Obama), Canada (by Stephen Harper) or Japan (by Shinzō Abe) might find the proposal by David Cameron, who represents the UK, including Northern Ireland, to reform the Eurozone to be a risk or a blessing. If these leaders are meeting just to have a meeting, then the cost to taxpayers must be kept lower. The church congress in Stuttgart set an example: There was even a resolution stating that the problem of the flood of refugees must be approached in a different way and not cost so much. Of course, the church, which always follows the lead of politicians, can afford to save a little and to pass resolutions, but they have no say. The G-7 governments, however, do have a say but they don’t need to say anything, because what they would have to say would give us a glimpse of the end of the world, which five of the G-7 countries have helped bring about over many years – and who wants to know about that.